Rockin' Ivories

I have some friends that live in this part of town, so we went for a girls bday. The pianists are pretty funny and try to get the crowd going. The crowd was mixed, I figured it'd be old people, but there were quite a few mid 20's to 30's people there for an engagement party or something.
There are also pool tables in the back if you don't feel like just sitting and listening to the music.
Honestly what really made me not like the place that it was soooo smoky. My eyes hurt, my throat hurt, my hair was gross...I did not want to stayin there for very long.

When my friends told me that Lewisville had a newly-opened piano bar located in a strip mall center down the street from Vista Ridge Mall, my first reaction was this:

"Szchwa?!"

I lived in Lewisville for several years, had friends there, still have friends there, went to the dollar theater, mall and several area restaurants.....never a piano bar.  This would be like dogs living with cats, or cats living with humans, or humans that go drinking going here in Lewisville to drink.

This, surely, was some mistake.  How can this be?!  Who knows about it?  Who goes there?  Who WOULD go there?  There are a few Pete's Dueling Piano Bars...Addison and Ft. Worth spring to mind, but this is Lewisville!  By law, no alcohol can be served past 12am on Friday nights and 1am on Saturdays, which is rEALly tame for anyone looking to go out-out.

I was intrigued.  Several pals and their dates rolled over there after dinner at 9pm-ish on a Friday to experience...something.  I was all open to this, piano bars CAN be fun, but normally are so packed with drunken military men and women or 12 bacherlorette parties with ensuing conga lines to be fun.

This, was a little different.  The guys up on stage were funny, and belted-out the usual goofy stuff, Elton John songs...Stray Cats and the expected humiliation of several patrons for everyone's amusement.  Drinks weren't too pricey, and a $15 bucket of beer is a good deal.  The Men's Room had great Vivid Video Vixen posters on the walls, but somehow that just led to guys staring at that after/while draining the lizard and seemed cool, but...weird?

Acoustically it falls a bit flat.  It's one big room with a bar on one end, lots of tables and a back "VIP" section that could just as easily have been labeled "Roped-off for the group that doesn't know about us to get here and probably is at Pete's-anyway" section.  At any rate, there were about 40...no, 35 people there that night, a mix of young and quasi-old as Lewisville is renowned for.  Sound travels out from the speakers across the room and piercingly upon the ears of rather quiet drinkers with little protection due to the bare walls.

The piano players tried to rile everyone up a little, and it started to work especially when the Captain Morgan's mascot with 2 chicks in tow arrived with free stuff such as stickers and visors.  Does anyone wear visors anymore?

Overall, good for friends, throwing friends under the bus and making them take the stage to sing in front of 20 or so strangers in drag, quasi-porn in the restroom and proximity to your Lewisville/Carrollton apartment.  

Also for singing songs that make you roll your eyes in that "UGH"-way and then laughing/crying into your beer.  The best part is that when you're done here you still can drive to the Bennagin's at Grapevine Mills and get sloshed until 2am.